Community Clinical Matron

Hpft; St Albans; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Band 8a Community Clinical Matron to lead Adult Community Mental Health Services. You will work within the Divisional senior nursing team, providing visible, credible professional leadership across community services.

The role involves supervising nursing teams, safeguarding quality, leading audits, and driving service improvement, with opportunities to develop workforce and ensure patient-centred care.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse on NMC register.
• Evidence of continuing personal and professional development.
• Educated to Master’s degree or currently working towards a Master’s degree.
• Wide knowledge of NHS developments impacting on the Trust, including current NHS initiatives and targets.
• Accreditation (CQC, AIMS) and revalidation knowledge and experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional leadership, supervision, support and challenge to nursing teams.
• Provide oversight and assurance of nursing practice, including nurse-led clinics and medicines management.
• Lead quality improvement, clinical audit, service development and evidence-based practice.

Skills

Nursing leadership

Clinical governance

Staff development

Education

Master's degree in Nursing

NMC registration

Job description

Site 99 Waverly Road Town St Albans Salary £59,798 - £67,020 per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS) Salary period Yearly Closing 26/10/2026 23:59

Values Based Screener

At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and inspirational senior nurse to join Adult Community Mental Health Services (ACMHS) as a Band 8a Community Clinical Matron.

Working as part of the Divisional senior nursing team and reporting to the Head of Nursing, you will provide visible, credible and compassionate professional leadership across community services. You will work alongside Clinical Nurse Specialists, senior clinical and operational colleagues to promote excellence in nursing practice, strengthen quality and safety, and ensure that service users and carers experience consistently safe, effective and person-centred care.

You will join an innovative and ambitious service with nationally recognised nursing practice. In2025, our nurse-led clinic improvement work won the HSJ Patient Safety Award for Early-Stage Patient Safety Innovation of the Year and was runner-up for the HSJ Nurse-Led Patient Safety Award. In 2026, our work was shortlisted for the Nursing Times Awards – Nursing in Mental Health, recognising our continued improvement in patient safety within nurse-led community mental health clinics.

In 2026, our Division was rated Good by the CQC across all domains. This is an opportunity to build on these achievements and help shape the future of community mental health nursing.

HPFT is CQC rated Good, and this is an opportunity to help us build on our achievements and ambitions for outstanding community mental health care.

Main duties of the job

The Community Clinical Matron will provide visible, accessible and authoritative professional nursing leadership across their designated services, supporting Clinical Nurse Specialists, team leaders and multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality care.

You will:

• Provide professional and clinical leadership, supervision, support and challenge to nursing teams.
• Maintain oversight and assurance of nursing standards, nurse-led services, medicines-related practice, physical healthcare, safer staffing and the clinical environment.
• Lead and support quality improvement, clinical audit, service development and implementation of evidence-based practice.
• Lead and contribute to reviews and investigations relating to nursing practice, incidents and complex care, ensuring learning is identified, shared and embedded.
• Promote service-user and carer involvement, dignity, inclusion and shared decision-making.
• Support workforce development, professional standards and a just and inclusive learning culture.
• Provide senior nursing advice and deputise for the Head of Nursing when required.

Working for our organisation

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from theCare Quality Commission.

Our family of over 4,500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. E verything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Community Clinical Matron will provide visible, accessible and authoritative professional nursing leadership across Adult Community Mental Health Services, ensuring high standards of safe, effective and person-centred care.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide professional leadership, supervision, support and challenge to nursing teams, promoting accountability and high standards of practice.
• Provide robust oversight and assurance of nursing practice, including nurse-led clinics, medicines management, physical healthcare, clinical environments and safer staffing.
• Lead and support quality improvement, clinical audit, service development and implementation of evidence-based practice, reducing unwarranted variation across services.
• Lead and contribute to reviews and investigations relating to clinical practice, incidents and complex care, ensuring learning and improvement actions are embedded.
• Support workforce development, recruitment, retention, professional development and succession planning.
• Promote service-user and carer involvement, co-production, equality and inclusion.
• Work collaboratively with senior clinical and operational colleagues and provide expert nursing advice.
• Deputise for the Head of Nursing as required.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse on NMC register
• Evidence of continuing personal and professional development
• Educated to Master’s degree or currently working towards a Master’s degree

Experience

• Wide knowledge of developments in the NHS impacting on the Trust, including comprehensive understanding of current NHS initiatives and targets
• Accreditation (CQC, AIMS) and revalidation knowledge and experience

Leadership and Management Skills

• Experience at Band 7 in clinical NHS environment either in a clinical leadership or managerial role
• Experience of effective leadership
• Ability to lead the service areas

Please note, we do not charge fees for job applications, recruitment processes, sponsorship arrangements, or employment offers.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Hildah Jiah Job title Head of Nursing, Adult Community Services Division Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07887722436 Additional information

Please contact Hildah Jiah, Head of Nursing, Adult Community Services Division should wish to discuss this job further.